Across three decades and two continents, I have enjoyed working as a psychologist with people from all walks of life to assist them with a range of personal growth and development challenges. In recent years, valued advisers have guided me on the importance of marketing ( via social media ) the benefits of our selected programs that we make available to motivated members of the public.
Read moreAn Inspired Call To Action - Leadership Motivation & Goal Setting
Wellness In the Wilderness and Self Belief
Perseverance, Self Belief & Creating the Right Rituals are the keys to stepping fully into your potential. We have created an amazing one day experience – called Wellness in the Wilderness - for people who are seeking to expand upon their mental and physical capacity.
Read moreL Plate - Wise People Seek Help & Face Issues Openly
In this four minute videoclip you will meet Kayla, a talented degree qualified professional who experienced the challenge of having her emotional well-being rapidly unravel during a couple of challenging years in her mid 20’s. I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Kayla, as she re-emerged from the mental health spiral as a wiser and insightfully motivating person having faced the personal “Test of Fire” in her life journey to date and emerging stronger.
Read moreWill A NEW YEAR mean a NEW YOU? Positive Psychology Tips for Real World Success
Congratulations on being interested in an article on the New You, as we step into 2016another year of growth opportunities beacon for each one of us to become healthier, wealthier and wiser.
Read moreCan't Let Things Go?
Gold Coast Psychologist Peter Doyle from Guidelight Psychology Southport, discusses the psychological importance of letting go ...
Read moreFun & Laughter Over the Festive Season - Positive Psychology Tips to help you enjoy this special time.
We have enjoyed the privilege over many years of professional service, to be able to identify underlying patterns of limiting beliefs that a person may not be directly aware is negatively affecting them.
Read moreGuidelight Leadership Forum Wrap Up for 2015
Guidelight's half day Leadership Forum finished with smiles all round, both for host Peter Doyle ( pictured) and for our keynote presenter Alec Morgan (pictured in floppy hat below). As a former Managing Director of a 200+ staff team, Alec shared with our Forum participants a frank and fearless discussion about how his focus on being centred and authentic has been buffeted by the winds of change and challenge in the past few years.
The learning and insights from his remarkable journey from Managing Director to Captain Of His Own Ship were profoundly challenging and worthy of the reputation our forum has earned for encouraging people to gain the best of themselves in their personal leadership journeys.
Into 2016 we will continue to host our regular Leadership Forum series, available for any interested person to attend who values developing their personal power and potential as a leader.
Leaders who attend our forums come from a range of different workplaces and community organisations.
Equally some of our participants attend as valued individuals without any specific connection to a workplace role at this point in their lives.
To ensure you receive our optional quarterly Leadership Forum Invitations and Agendas into 2016, please sign up for our free quarterly email newsletters.
Our newsletters will provide all the details if you choose to get involved with us in one, two, three or all four of our scheduled half day Leadership Forums during 2016.
We warmly encourage you to join us and step into your next level of potential."
Wellbeing at Work
Wellbeing at Work is becoming a major focus for employers as they strive to reduce stress levels and improve mental health for their employees.
Read more6 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle
As part of Psychology Week, the Australian Psychological Society has produced an infograph with 6 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle. This includes tips to assist you make the change to a healthier lifestyle. Guidelight is committed to creating healthier workplaces and provides various programs to assist the health and wellbeing of employers and their employees. Our range of services include:-
If you would like more information, contact Guidelight 07 5527 0123
Understanding and Managing Stress
Understanding and Managing Stress can be easier if you have the right tools and also if you are aware of the different types of stress one can experience. Guidelight is pleased to be supporting National Psychology Week. As long established members of the Australian Psychological Society ( APS ) we are proud of the ( APS ) series of tips and video resources on stress, well-being and healthier lifestyles that we have selected as resources for people to easily peruse via a link on our website.
Below is a copy, for your reference, of a Stress Tip Sheet, provided by the Australian Psychological Society. It details the different types of stress, symptoms and how to manage everyday stress.
Understanding & Managing Stress
Tips for Managing Stress
Stress and how we manage it is one of the most common problems we face in our lives today. Feeling overloaded, overwhelmed, tense and worried can impact our lifestyle and affect our well-being. Guidelight is pleased to be supporting National Psychology Week. As long established members of the Australian Psychological Society ( APS ) we are proud of the ( APS ) series of tips and video resources on stress, well-being and healthier lifestyles.
Tips for Managing Stress
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The APS has provided Tips on Managing Stress which include:-
- Identifying warning signs
- Identifying triggers
- Establishing routines
- Looking after your health
- Noticing 'self-talk'
- Spending time with people who care
- Relaxation
For more detailed information on these tips go to Australian Psychological Society Tips for Managing Stress
Guidelight also provides Interactive Stress Management Workshops
If you are experiencing stress and finding it difficult to manage, contact Guidelight to arrange a confidential appointment with one of our caring psychologists. 07 5527 0123
Good response for Mental Health Week
Thank you to the many clients, associates and friends of Guidelight, who kindly took the time to respond to and support our social media release recently - highlighting National Mental Health Week ! In particular it is very heartening to see that our articles and strategies about building up “mental fitness” & physical well-being rituals for people at work received such a great response from our business readers in the early part of October.
People who are interested in delving deeper into our ideas drawn from the field of advanced positive psychology, might like to subscribe to our complimentary periodic newsletter.
Utilising our knowledge of advanced positive psychology, coupled with powerful physical and nutritional routines, we are proud to champion an integrated approach that ensures your mental and physical fitness is powerfully aligned, revitalised and enhanced !
Simply go to our website www.guidelight.com.au and hit the subscribe button with your details.
Guidelight Expands Range Of Services For Individuals & Families
As the pace of life quickens for many in our community, individuals and families and some of the previous building block certainties in life seem to become less stable or predictable, it is not surprising that an increasing number of clients choose to seek our professional guidance for themselves and loved ones.
Guidelight expands range of services for Individuals & Families
Guidelight recently announced securing another talented psychologist, Roz, into our team and you can read more about Roz in our Guidelight Team section of our website. In this brief article we would like to put into context four of the reasons we have identified, that everyday members of our community our increasingly seeking to utilise our services.
- Some of us have allowed the intricacies of technology to become so complex in our life, that what was once a simple task, has become labyrinth like over engineered process. ( The tail is wagging the dog ).
- Some of us have lost the ability or desire to regularly have face to face conversations ( As opposed to mislabelling a text message as the same as conversation )
- Some of us have forgotten about how to focus on being content and happy with what I have accomplished now, rather than fighting to get that next step ahead.
- Some of us have lost the ability to focus on peace of mind as an internal process, not automatically controlled by events that happen around us. ( Like watching less disaster and crisis drama by not turning on the TV for extended periods ).
Any or all of these factors can unsettle individuals and impact upon family dynamics in a draining sense of cumulative challenges. Two decades into our journey of providing confidential tools and strategies to help people think and feel at their best, we are delighted to be continually learning new ways to assist.
Guidelight Welcomes New Psychologist to the Team
An important focus of our practice is to provide quality psychology services to individuals and families. These valued clients typically book in to see us for a number of confidential one hour consultation sessions, where we provide selected tools, strategies and techniques to deliver the ideal outcome, uniquely tailored for each person. To maintain the quality of our work helping people gain consistent positive outcomes over the past twenty years operating in our community, we are very selective in recruiting the right professional staff to join us as team members. Accordingly we are delighted to announce that Ms. Roz Erdelyi, a widely experienced Psychologist has recently joined our team and is available immediately for client consultations in our Southport office. Please enjoy reading a little bit more about Roz in the following paragraphs where she highlights aspects of her warm and supportive professional style. “I am very excited to be joining the Guidelight Psychology practice, I’m passionate about utilising positive psychology techniques to assist my clients to overcome adversity. I believe that empowering my clients to face the challenges of life in an adaptive manner, assists them to develop emotional resilience and a reliance and belief in one’s own abilities to cope – in doing so, further developing confidence, self esteem and positive life outcomes.
I respect each and every client’s individual differences and assist people to clarify their own personal values (without judgment) as a helpful basis for developing future life and treatment direction.
I have worked with clients from diverse social, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and am devoted to providing a confidential and respectful environment free from judgment, in which my clients can obtain the therapeutic outcomes they seek, regardless of their circumstances or personal history. “
Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week is 4th October to 10 October.
Lunchbox Workshop Series
For more information contact us on 07 5527 0123.
Staff Health and Well-Being Lunch Time Workshop Series
As a manager, are you concerned about Staff Health and Well-Being?
Recently, Guidelight introduced our Staff Health & Well-Being Lunch Time Workshops and are achieving great results.
Do you and your staff suffer from:-
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High stress levels?
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Feel overwhelmed?
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Underperforming at work and at home?
Workplaces in the Brisbane CBD who wish to ensure that reduced stress levels and a good mental health focus are maintained for their staff are benefiting from our flexible one hour workshop series.
Typically we meet with between 6 to 15 people participating in a group together over a light lunch in their own workplace to learn about powerful tools from the fields of positive psychology and nutritional health.
By way of concrete example, a recently completed Lunch Time Series was held for the motivated administration team of 10 staff members at Scottish Pacific Finance. Across four consecutive Tuesday lunch hours we met in their offices to engage in a relaxed and powerful learning process that built high levels of trust and camaraderie among the participants.
Furthermore by utilising their individual workbooks, each staff member gained expanded skill sets around the “ Shrinking Your Worries” approach and physical, emotional and intellectual strategies to reduce stress and improve positive mental health focus in all aspects of their lives.
Evaluation ratings at the end of this program by the participants were consistently in the very good to excellent range.
Even more exciting was the increased energy, positive thinking and workplace harmony that flowed from completing this flexibly designed luncheon series. T
Talk to us soon about how we can smoothly design a Health and Well-Being lunch time workshop series specifically shaped to meet the needs of your own workplace.
Read more about the Workplace Programs Guidelight offers http://creatinghealthierworkplaces.com.au/staff-training-workshops
How to Rewire Your Brain
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Innovative Staff Learning & Development Day
Congratulations to the 29 creative thinking team members from Brisbane based IT company Eyecon Pty. Ltd. Some of the participants are pictured here celebrating and strategizing with organisational psychologist Peter Doyle last Friday, as people enjoy an opportunity to focus on advanced communication and relationship building strategies while also relaxing barefoot on a lawn bowling green as one part of the day long workshop process.
It is valuable to be reminded that to inspire and develop the potential of your staff team, it can be useful to leave the office conference rooms and engage integrated outdoor physical pursuits as part of an embedded workshop process.
Fun in the sun can be one of the ingredients that helps sharpen mind, body and spirit among work colleagues within a learning and development framework that allows Guidelight Pty. Ltd to facilitate the engagement of rigorous positive psychology skills while people are at the same time, laughing, smiling and relaxed.
Relationship Building – Important Strategies for Home life & Work life Success
It is not uncommon for each of us to become complacent and sometimes take for granted the interactions we have with significant other people in our busy lives. Although we may intellectually understand the importance of seeing the world through another person’s eyes, often our clients identify that ( upon mindful reflection in the consultation room ) they have typically defaulted to responding to others as if on autopilot. As an encouraging reminder, listed below are some excellent areas to focus upon, when we are looking to improve the quality and depth of our interactions with significant people in our personal and professional lives.
Enjoy describing situations that you perceive differently from the other person without injecting blame or judgement or criticism of them into your conversation. This will result in the other person not needing to become defensive or feel threatened, meaning they are much more likely to process your perspective and give you an open response.
Relationship Building - Strategies
Feelings
Explain the feelings that have been generated for you by that particular situation, without expecting/assuming that the other person must feel the same way about this situation as you do.
Focus
Focus on solutions and positive steps that you and the other person can collaborate upon and create together into the future, rather than struggling to make the other person adapt/conform to your own perspective.
Explore
Explore the positive consequences and verbalise the benefits for you and the other people involved in implementing the solutions your open conversation with them has generated. You may also want to articulate the negative consequences in not adopting collaborative solutions and the risk of staying stuck in an old negative mindset or pattern together.
Encourage
Finally, go out of your way to choose words of affirmation, praise and encouragement for the other person in your communication. This could mean that rather than highlighting a handful of matters that did not go so well with each other, you instead put a joyful highlight under one particular aspect of the relationship that is going well and build upon this as the focus.